A Krebs on Security report, republished as an automatic translation in the feed, says authorities in the Netherlands arrested a 24-year-old man around September 16, 2026, on suspicion of assisting ShinyHunters in data theft and extortion. The publication is dated September 28. The claims about the investigation are attributed to sources cited by the report; an arrest alone does not establish guilt in the current case.
The article says the suspect had been convicted in 2023 for earlier data theft and extortion offenses, which prosecutors estimated had yielded between €1.5 million and €2.7 million. According to the report, he admitted those activities and received a four-year sentence, with one year suspended; he was released in December 2025. In a September 9, 2026 interview, he reportedly said he was trying to change his life.
The report says that in the days after the arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members sharply increased attacks, including stealing data described as highly confidential from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p. These events are presented as claims in the report, not as findings independently verified here. The supplied excerpt ends while describing a request for assistance by Dutch authorities, so that detail cannot be completed.
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